15.  But since the disobedient Jews will not be persuaded by the Divine Scriptures, but forgetting all that is written gainsay the Resurrection of Jesus, it were good to answer them thus:  On what ground, while you say that Eliseus and Elias raised the dead, do you gainsay the Resurrection of our Saviour?  Is it that we have no living witnesses now out of that generation to what we say?  Well, do you also bring forward witnesses of the history of that time.  But that is written;—so is this also written:  why then do ye receive the one, and reject the other?  They were Hebrews who wrote that history; so were all the Apostles Hebrews:  why then do ye disbelieve the Jews Instead of τοῖς ᾽Ιουδαίοις the Jerusalem Editor adopts from Cod. A. τοῖς ἰδίοις, “Your own countrymen,” a better reading in this place, if it had more support from mss.  The Latin in Milles has only “Cur igitur non creditis?”?  Matthew who wrote the Gospel wrote it in the Hebrew tongue The statements of Papias, Irenæus, Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius, and Jerome, concerning a Hebrew Gospel of S. Matthew are ably discussed by Dr. Salmon (Introduction to N.T. Lect. X.), who comes to the conclusion that the Canonical Gospel was not translated from Hebrew (Aramaic), but originally written in Greek.; and Paul the preacher was a Hebrew of the Hebrews; and the twelve Apostles were all of Hebrew race:  then fifteen Bishops of Jerusalem were appointed in succession from among the Hebrews This statement may have been derived either from Eusebius (Hist. Eccl.. IV. c. 5), or from the “written records” (ἐγγράφων), from which he had learned that “until the siege of the Jews which took place under Adrian (135 a.d.), there were fifteen bishops in succession there, all of whom are said to have been of Hebrew descent.”  See the list of names, and the notes on the passage in this Series..  What then is your reason for allowing your own accounts, and rejecting ours, though these also are written by Hebrews from among yourselves.